When Moon Kong-hwi saw the scene, he thought the bottom of society had dropped out. It was five years ago when he witnessed people engaged in hate speech in Osaka’s Tsuruhashi district, one of the country’s famous Korea towns. Since the vitriol came at ...

A 19-year-old male is appealing a district court ruling that sentenced him to an indeterminate prison term of between six and 10 years for his involvement in the brutal murder of a teenage boy on a riverbank in Kawasaki last year. The defendant, whose ...

The Yokohama District Court’s Kawasaki branch handed down a provisional injunction Thursday banning an anti-Korean group from holding demonstrations within 500 meters from the office of a citizens’ group fighting hate speech. The court prohibited a Kawasaki man who had repeatedly organized rallies ostracizing ...

A power outage Thursday morning at an electrical substation in Kawasaki disrupted train services in the Tokyo metropolitan area, affecting some 240,000 commuters, East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) said. According to JR East, a total of 32 train services were canceled and 75 ...

Revelers carried giant phalluses through the streets of Kawasaki on Sunday to worship the humble penis and fertility in one of the world’s most unusual festivals. Size matters at the Shinto Kanamara Matsuri, where groups of locals parade three heavy phalluses around the city ...

Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture is famed for three things: yakiniku barbecue restaurants, sex shops and a high crime rate. Though parts of the city are middle class, a grittier and lower-income image of Kawasaki has persisted through the years. “Sakura no Kino Shita” (“Under ...

The former nursing care employee under arrest for allegedly throwing three elderly patients to their deaths at a facility in Kawasaki is opening up to investigators on why he committed the acts, police sources said. “I resented the words and behavior” of the home’s ...

The 19-year-old male who played a key role in the murder of a teenage boy on a Kawasaki riverbank last year was sentenced to nine to 13 years in prison Wednesday at the Yokohama District Court. In handing down the so-called indeterminate sentence as ...

Prosecutors sought on Thursday a sentence of 10 to 15 years in prison for the eldest of three teenagers charged in the slaying of a 13-year-old boy at a riverbank in Kawasaki last year. The case “is particularly heinous among other numerous juvenile delinquencies,” ...